Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 2, sentence 39
He and his four brothers, the Pandavas as they were called, put their soldiers in a ring round King Drupada’s fortress, and let no one pass out or go in.
Who acts: Pandavas, one · What happens: call, put, let, pass out, go in · To what, where: brothers, soldiers, ring, one, four brothers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pandavas, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brothers | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 brothers | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 brothers | nummod |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Pandavas | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Pandavas | det |
| 8 | Pandavas | Pandavas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 brothers | nmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 called | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 called | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 called | aux:pass |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Pandavas | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 brothers | parataxis |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 soldiers | nmod:poss |
| 16 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 put | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 ring | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 ring | det |
| 19 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 20 | round | round | ADP | _ | 24 fortress | case |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 fortress | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Drupada | Drupada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 King | flat |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 King | case |
| 24 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 let | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 let | cc |
| 27 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 put | conj |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 one | det |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 let | obj |
| 30 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 let | xcomp |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 pass | compound:prt |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 go | cc |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 pass | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADV | _ | 33 go | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brothers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | the Pandavas not said here | brothers = brother | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | brothers's soldiers | a ring | round King's fortress | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme in ring=Destination | |||
| 3 | let | infinitive | no one | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pass out | infinitive | no one not said here | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | go in | infinitive | no one not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Project Gutenberg book 69647 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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